An op-ed in the conservative Washington Times assailed the campaign for transgender equality, lamenting that "you no longer need lady bits to be a lady" and asserting that the LGBT movement is part of a broader left-wing effort to "dismantle" Western civilization.
In an October 9 column, the Media Research Center's Matt Philbin complained that it's becoming increasingly unacceptable to misidentify transgender individuals. According to Philbin, the notion that we should respect a person's gender identity is emblematic of a larger leftist cult of identity:
Not the Republicans playing chicken with Wall Street?
Not the corporations polluting our ecosystem?
Not the Banksters creating a rentier class?
But me and my insistence I be treated like a human being is causing the collapse of western civilization.
Duly noted.